Ramapo College

The countdown to the end of history’s most contentious election began at the stroke of midnight. Hundreds of volunteers across the nation had been trained to operate the booths of the polling stations, ensuring that each vote counted. Amira Rachouh, senior at Ramapo College, spent the early hours of Nov. 8 with her eyes glued to her textbooks as she tried to absorb as much material as possible before her back-to-back exams later that day. Unlike other college students, Rachouh didn’t worry about driving home that day to vote in her district. She had scribbled her information on a registration form a few weeks earlier and requested a mail-in-ballot that she completed days before the election. It was the first time voting in any election for…

Internationalization Plan enacted by Ramapo College and campuses across the nation in an effort to promote internationalization abroad, at home, and in the curriculum. “There is currently an imperative that is pushing the agenda of higher education to look at what we call internationalization,” said Ben Levy, the Director of International Education at Ramapo College. The process of internationalization involves instituting a variety of strategies to integrate an international,…

Rutgers University is busy trying to get the attention of day time TV show host Ellen DeGeneres as their commencement speaker for next year’s graduating class. While that is happening, the students from Ramapo College are trying to get actor and comedian Danny Devito to come to their school as their guest celebrity commencement address speaker. Danny DeVito himself hails from New Jersey and the students from Ramapo has their hearts set on getting him to attend, as reported by New Jersey. To…

I was contemplating whether I should write to you or not. Literally I wrote to everyone I could think of before I wrote to you, because my parents informed me how it is not proper etiquette because we live in Park Ridge Estates as well. However, after I saw a book you wrote I knew you were the perfect person to write to. The title of your book is, “Now or Never: Getting Down To The Business of Saving Our American Dream”. For years I have disregarded my own American dream, covered by my own…

The Day I Choose LCC Have you ever thought about what college you would attend and how successful you would be? Well I have, as child I would imagine what college I would attend and would I be able to succeed. I imagined how collage would be, would I attended a large university or a small local community college. Students may even worry about the ACT and SAT and how successful will they be when taking those two extremely important tests. Luckily, I choose a school that didn 't stress me out…

children to work hard, do well, and earn a college degree, then they will get a job. Many would argue that this philosophy helped the older generation be successful in their educational and post-educational careers, so it should not be changed; however, in the words of Ken Burns, “the problem is that the current system of education was designed…

Up program was introduced, I had a fair idea of what I was intending to study, but I remained unsure and had made no further necessary decisions about my post-secondary education. The reason I had not even thought about what university I wanted to go to or what career I wanted to pursue was due to a lack of resources and guidance. My parents, although always supportive of me, were limited as to what they could help me with when it came to making academic decisions beyond high school as they had…

Many say that American high schools teach students to learn how to take standardized tests on writing, rather than actually prepare them for college. Therefore, most secondary students are entering college without an understanding of how to meet demands of college writing beyond the prescribed “standard five-paragraph essay.” Susan Fanetti’s “Closing the Gap between High School Writing Instruction and College Writing Expectations” examines the discrepancy between American high schools and their…

children on to higher education. The only hard decision a child should have to make concerning college is choosing which school is best for them after high school. If a person wants to go on to college after high school, it should not have to be a difficult decision based on a nonexistence of monetary contributions. Unfortunately for most children in American families the lack of awareness of preparing for the future of the child or children in the home for continued education has caused many…

Now, I can’t go a day without it. Being a college student, technology is the way we communicate with each other and it is hard to think how things can be done efficiently without the use of a computer or handheld device. I am constantly on my cell phone and I feel lost without it. This shows how dependent we are upon technology and the major role it plays in our lives. Not only do I depend on technology for school, my workday would be very difficult without it. Working in a fast paced…